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Powerful Words When Life Coaching

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“If not now, when?” – Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

Life coaches ask lots of questions to help you to find your blocks and develop those areas that are holding you back from being successful.

Here are 7 words that coaches should be using and what you should be asking yourself.

To discuss what a life coach can do for you and to schedule a session with Michael, use the contact form below.

Michael is a certified Life Optimization coach as well as a Law of Attraction and Law of Attraction Wealth coach.

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The seven most powerful words in Coaching by Jaco Beukes

Seven small words are so powerful, it can and will change your life!

There are not many words that have the power to unlock possibilities and help people fulfill their potential. But these seven words are crucial to any coach or ambitious person’s toolkit. If you know how to use them effectively, they can be a brush in your hand in front of an open canvas. However, if you use them incorrectly they will create a barrier between you and the person you work with…

Coaching requires many questions to be asked to the person you work with, and this is an art! Before discussing particular effective words, I want to share a few thoughts on questioning itself. This is to ensure that the environment in which the questions are asked is optimised…

1. Know why you are asking specific questions. Your aim is to help clients think through their circumstances and generate possibilities that will help them to reach their goals. This means that you do not need to know everything and should not ask questions to merely satisfy your own curiosity, but rather to help them come up with what will help them move forward.

2. Make sure that you establish good rapport with your clients before you start with in-depth questioning. If in-depth questions are asked before a suitable level of rapport has been established, your questions may actually cause the client to close off instead of open up.

3. Always ask open questions, questions that cannot be answered with only a “yes” or “no”.

4. Really listen to the speaker, do not use the time to think of what you’ll say next. Let them determine the direction of the conversation.

Once you have created rapport and the right context, the following seven questioning words can be particularly powerful: what, why, how, when, where, who and if. Let’s look at each in turn:

What

This is probably the word that any good coach will use most frequently. It could be used to elicit information, help clients to think through the possible consequences of their actions and assist them in defining their goal. A very strong addition to what is the little word ‘else’. By asking what else continuously, clients are helped to generate countless possibilities from which they could then choose the most appropriate action.

Why

This word should be approached with caution. If it is used wrongly, someone might react defensively, e.g. why did you do that? These questions will then form a barrier between the coach and the client. It is therefore much better to change into a “what” question, e.g. what were the consequences of this action? Or what made you decide to take this action? However, when used to test or increase motivation, why-questions can be very effective. For instance when someone talks about their goal and you want to help them to make it into a strong and compelling reason to follow their dream, ask: why do you want this so much?

How

This word could help people to take action, by thinking through the steps they will need to take to turn their dreams into reality. Asking a question like: how will you go about achieving your goal? will help clients to think through the actions they need to take next. Another powerful how-question would be to ask: how will you know when you’ve reached your goal? This question will help clients to become very clear on what needs to happen and what specific elements are required. This will make it easier for them to recognise when they have achieved their goal.

Who

This word can be used to achieve two major outcomes. Firstly it can help people to find out who they can ask to support them or who could help them reach their goals. Secondly a who-question could help clients to realise their own responsibility for achieving their goals. This question, whose responsibility is this, can help clients to really take ownership of what needs to be done. This could be a powerful experience for clients when they really take ownership of the goals for their life.

If

This word is used to help clients see possibilities and unlock their creativity, e.g. if you were to do this, what would happen? If you knew the answer, what would you say? If a miracle happened and everything was how you would like it to be, what would your life look like?

When

After someone has decided on their action plan, this word is probably the most effective word that could be used. This word transforms dreams into goals. The word “when” can change an idea into a specific action. When someone has made plans and seem excited about doing it, just ask: when will you do this?

Where

Although this question is not often used, it could be a real gem, especially when it is asked not to determine a specific place, but rather a direction or consequence. For instance asking someone: where will this lead? Could help them to realise the consequences or possibilities of their actions and could motivate them to take action as soon as possible. So, if you asked this question after someone said they would clean their garden, they could respond with the following answers: I will not be embarrassed to have friends over anymore; I may even invite my neighbours over… I think we could actually become good friends… This question could thus generate a lot of possibilities and subsequent excitement about the future.

These seven words are powerful, they could change your practise and they could help to change people’s lives. So use them with precision and care and see how they will help people to unlock their amazing potential.

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Life Coaching – A Rewarding Experience

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“Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.” – Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

Using a Life Coach can be very rewarding. It can open many new possibilities in your life. The article below gives some reasons why using a life coach can be a great help in your life.

To discuss what a life coach can do for you and to schedule a session with Michael, use the contact form below.

Michael is a certified Life Optimization coach as well as a Law of Attraction and Law of Attraction Wealth coach.

Michael Wilkovesky

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Life Coaching- The Best Way – TheCoachingInstitute

What is Life Coaching? Life Coaching is becoming open to new possibilities. It is about making the life you want and deserve. It is about learning and change.

One of many things I take most pleasure in when Life Coaching is that I’ve come to discover that nothing is truly impossible. Some elements may perhaps be just a little more challenging than others however Life Coaching is essentially about coaching yourself and others about life.

The old saying ‘silence is golden’ can absolutely apply when you are life coaching. Sometimes you’ll want to give people space to find their response and to learn to believe their subconscious to discover the responses they may possibly have been hiding or shutting away for a few years. Your clientele may need the time and space to collect their ideas and process emotions and also the new idea of looking past the conscious mind to the subconscious.

It is not about ‘telling’ people, it is about assisting them to discover the correct remedy for them. I love the fact that Life coaching is about solutions instead of problems, helping individuals push past the obstacles that hold them back, and finding that they’ve in fact been holding themselves back, rather than outside issues and conditions stopping their achievement. This is usually gratifying for both the coach and also the client.

Limiting Beliefs are beliefs normally held since childhood (normally just a myth and something created from a child’s thoughts but believed to be true and correct in adulthood) and can hold people back from achieving their objectives and aspirations. These beliefs are quite real and life coaching can help remove these old negative beliefs and open up the mind to new potentialities.

Think about the difference to somebody having negative beliefs removed from their thinking, the old behaviors surrounding them gone, and new optimistic techniques for success replacing them. This is what life coaching can do.

Coaching is basically a dialogue-based relationship built all round trust and rapport to attain potential and possibility. A coach helps their client take care of difficulties, shows them how to triumph over procrastination along with other unfavorable behaviors, shows them the best way to set and reach desired goals.

I continue to feel restored exhilaration about what is achievable with coaching and the results people today can realize. The levels they at one time only dreamed doable are now infinitely achievable.

Imagine encouraging and coaching a person through what they thought were insurmountable problems, to understand new approaches for success with a solution based focus?

Life coaching is about life, every day life, every day concerns. Life Coaching is about moving people from where they are to where they want to be, to take away the feeling of being ‘stuck’ and for those who are unsure how to alter their situation. This may possibly be in the context of their organization, career, finances, health and well-being or relationships – which can include work relationships.

The possibilities are almost endless.

If you would like to work in this world of unlimited possibilities, optimistic change plus a new concept in understanding the human mind then make sure you visit the link below to locate out how you are able to start on your road to success.

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Looking For A Life Coach

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“These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.” – by Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

Finding a Life Coach is not always easy. There are many coaches out there and not all of hem may be suitable for your specific needs.

The article below gives some advice on finding the right coach for you.

To discuss what a life coach can do for you and to schedule a session with Michael, use the contact form below.

Michael is a certified Life Optimization coach as well as a Law of Attraction and Law of Attraction Wealth coach.

Michael Wilkovesky

What To Look For In A Life Coach – by Artistik inc

Hiring a Life Coach can be a real issue for a great many people. They have heard about Life Coaching and the astounding results many people are gaining, but have no idea how to spot a good Life Coach from a bad one. Especially as the Life Coaching industry is unregulated. Whereas most Life Coaches will offer prospective clients a free consultation, a great many people don’t take them up on this offer. They simply like the look of their website or impressive credentials and decide even before they make the call that this is the Coach for them.

I highly recommend against this approach and instead suggest speaking with at least 3 different Life Coaches to see which one you gel with the most. Life Coaching is a partnership and if you don’t like your Life Coach then it doesn’t matter how good he or she is, you will not get the results you want.

I would also suggest you ask to speak with a handful of their clients. Most competent coaches will have no issue in doing this because they will have a long list of eager clients happy to extol their virtues. If a Life Coach you contact cannot supply you with testimonials then that is a something you should be concerned about.

If you have never worked with a Life Coach before, I also wouldn’t be afraid to ask if they offer money back guarantee, so that if you are dissatisfied after your first full session you can get a total refund. There are some excellent coaches that won’t agree to this, but when they do it demonstrates confidence in their own ability to deliver value for money and make you want to move on with the process.

In the final analysis though I would say goes with your gut instinct. If you are chatting with a coach and it’s like talking to a long lost friend then that is a great sign. On the other hand if you feel you’re being herded through their sales process then that tells you the coach is more transactional. The latter doesn’t mean they won’t be a great Life Coach, but it may well suggest they aren’t right for you if you have any level of discomfort. In the final analysis do you due diligence by reading up on coaching, researching different Life Coaches and refusing to say yes until you feel 100 % comfortable with the person you are talking to.

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A Life Coach? – What is That?

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“Act like a champion, and then become one.” – Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

At some point in our lives we need to help to break through our limiting beliefs that are holding us back. A life coach can help.

The article below gives some advice about life coaches and why we need them as well as how to go about selecting a coach who is right for you.

To discuss what a life coach can do for you and to schedule a session with Michael, use the contact form below.

Michael is a certified Life Optimization coach as well as a Law of Attraction and Law of Attraction Wealth coach.

Michael Wilkovesky

What is a Life Coach? – LaWanda Hill

A life coach is not a consultant, mentor, cheerleader, friend or advice-giver. A coach helps you access ‘your own’ wisdom, and act upon it. A coaching relationship is not about information flowing downhill…It is a partnership between peers, where the focus is on you and your life. A coach is an expert in helping clients create lives that are successful and fulfilling, based on the clients own values. Life coaching is one of the most powerful technologies we have for creating positive change in ourselves, and in the world. Life coaching helps you to discover what is really most important to you in your life. Life coaching will help you to design a plan to achieve those goals. A life coach will work with you to eliminate any obstacles or blocks that stand in your way, will partner with you all the ways to success and will celebrate your success with you.

Life Coaching is a designed alliance between coach and client where the coaching relationship continually gives all the power back to you, the client. A certified life coach believe that you know the answers to every question or challenge you may have in your life, even if those answers appear to be obscured, concealed or hidden inside. Every day we make choices to do or not do many things. These choices may range from profound to trivial and each one has an effect that makes our lives more fulfilling or less fulfilling, more balanced or less balanced, that makes our process of living more effective or less effective. A life coach helps you learn how to make choices that create an effective, balanced and fulfilling life.

Life coaching is a powerful partnership that can empower, shift, and change your life and business. If you are ready to take your life, goals, dreams, and desires to the next level, then it is time to explore a life coaching partnership, as a strategy to get from where you are to where you want to be. Life coaching acts as an incubator for your wildest dreams and the strategies.

Life coaching aims to help you achieve clarity and confidence to work through issues that are holding you back from enjoying a challenging and harmonious life. Life coaching is not about making simplistic judgments about someone’s life and telling that person how they ought to live it. Personal experience and social science research have shown that people are the sum of their genes, their cumulative experiences and the circumstances in which they live their lives. Therefore, successful coaching has to be based on an understanding of all these factors and not just focus on superficial behaviors.

When it comes to selecting a coach, it’s important to shop around to find someone compatible. You want a coach you like and respect. You want a coach that is knowledgeable and experienced. And you especially want a coach that will help you achieve the results you desire. This doesn’t necessarily mean hiring a coach who’s just like you, only better. It may mean hiring someone who’s very different from you. Understand that a coach is your helper, not your boss. You must be the one to decide what you want out of each session. If you aren’t clear about what you want to work on, a good coach can help you gain clarity and set new goals. Just be sure that the emerging goals are your goals, not your coach’s goals for you.

The main reason coaching works is that you\’re hiring someone with greater experience than you in a certain area. Your coach can quickly identify patterns that may not be clear to you. Then your coach can help you devise and implement solutions. When this works well, it’s a very high-leverage relationship. It’s one of the fastest ways to solve challenging problems. Businesses often hire outside consultants to help solve important problems, and life coaching is basically the individual equivalent of business consulting.

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With a BS in Psychology as well as an Associate\’s Degree in Divinity, LaWanda Hill is a public speaker and life coach that helps people find a better balance in their life and coaches them in how to clear their own personal path to prosperity. Also a certified Belief Therapist, LaWanda uses her education and life experiences to help adults cope with life\’s often overwhelming circumstances.

Teaching simple but effective personal development strategies, her coaching programs focus on relationships, health [both physical and mental], finances, time management, stress, self esteem and overall life balance.

 

Choosing The Right Life Coach

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“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.” Lou Holtz

If you are going to use a life coach, then you need to make sure that the person you connect with is right for you. Not all life coaches can help in every area of your life.

The article below gives some advice on selecting the right life coach for you.

To discuss what a life coach can do for you and to schedule a session with Michael, use the contact form below.

Michael is a certified Life Optimization coach as well as a Law of Attraction and Law of Attraction Wealth coach.

Life coaching and choosing a life coach for success – by Jonathan Logan

Life coaching can be incredibly beneficial for someone looking for various types of assistance or advice. Coaches vary in their specialties and areas of interest, but typically you can expect a life coach to help you make life more enjoyable across multiple different spectrums. The first steps to making that happen however, is deciding that you need a life coach and then selecting the right life coach.

Choosing a life coach is like going to the grocery store and seeing the many varieties of cereal available and then grabbing a box of cereal off the shelf. All life coaches are not the same. Like cereal, some may seem metaphorically delicious but lack the substance to keep you healthy. A good coach will be someone who can combine a welcoming exterior with an inner substance that will help you in the long run. The best life coach for you will depend on your life situation and the experience and specialty of the coach. For that reason, it’s important to get as much information about a coach as possible before making any monetary commitments. Nearly every legitimate coach will offer some sort of free consultation that you should definitely take advantage of. Using this free consultation will allow you to see if your personality meshes with your coach and will allow your coach to get a feel of how they may be able to help you. A good coaching relationship requires both the coach and the client to be comfortable with each other.

It’s important to enter a coaching relationship with realistic expectations for yourself and the entire experience. Expecting a life coach to have a magic button that will automatically improve every aspect of your life is obviously misguided. Having an idea of what success would look like for you is a great idea and sharing it with your coach can help give both of you a target to aim for. However, the coaching process is rarely completely straightforward and sometimes new goals arise during the process. A certain tolerance for the unknown and a willingness to work through difficult questions is important for you to get the most out of your coaching arrangement.

In today’s challenging world environment, many more people are looking to a life coach to provide perspective and value added coaching that promotes results and sustainable change. Even if you do not have a challenge right now in your life, a great coach will help you get to the next level, so you don\’t really need to wait for a problem to hire a coach!

Below are some additional tips to help you with your selection;

  1. Are you ready to commit to Coaching?
  2. Prepare a list of questions for your selection process
  3. Do your research on the coach before choosing them i.e.: look for success stories that they have had with other clients
  4. Look for a life coach that is going to challenge you
  5. Before committing, ensure you connect with them
  6. See life coaching as an investment verses an expense and with all investments you need to get a return

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Simon Boutros is a Life & Business Coach, Neuro Strategist & Consultant at Success International Consulting. Simon Specialises in helping people with life & Business strategies by working with them to get great results in any area of life and or business. Simon is certified as a master practitioner NLP, Neuro Strategies Framework, Hypnotherapy & TimeLine Therapy and has extensive experience in business and has worked many small medium & large corporations. For more resources and articles and to subscribe to the blog go to http://www.successinc.com.au.